Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist West Essex in Chelmsford

This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation. This is funded as eight Programmed Activities (10 PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust's Values in their day-to-day work.

• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work with our communities

Main duties of the job:

This post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the SET CAMHS Harlow (West Essex) Team at Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex's Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.

On-call responsibilities:

The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota. The community CAMHS Consultants participate in an on-call rota with a current frequency of 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B on-call supplement. This rota mainly provides telephone advice to the crisis teams, which is the first port of call for children in crises out of hours, covering Southend, Essex and Thurrock. The on-call shifts are from 17:00 - 09:00 Monday to Friday, and all day on weekends and bank holidays.

Main responsibilities:

• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.

Clinical Skills:

• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
• The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice on the General Medical Council (GMC).
• Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
• To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
• To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

Qualifications:

• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT.
• Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.
• Desirable: Endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry, Postgraduate qualification.

Experience:

• Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in adults.
• Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
• Working with interpreters and translators.
• Desirable: An awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities, Understanding of change management.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name: NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address: Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG, United Kingdom